“Where you will sit when you are old shows where you stood in your youth.” – African proverb Dear Santa, I have always wondered why you never visit Africa. Frankly, I have had to write to you because many of the children on the continent have been asking about you. Interestingly,...
- An effective leader delegates effectively (2) Last week, I started with some excerpts from my book “THE MODERN BRANCH MANAGER’S COMPANION”, and will finish with  the second part, as I sign off my contributions in 2022. The year has been with mixed feelings, the highs and the low moments, but...
Sport in Ghana has grown rapidly since the colonial era when there was little consideration for an organised schedule of activity other than the daily drill known as physical training (PT). After gaining independence from British Colonial Rule in 1957, the Gold Coast began a course of rapid development...
Today’s workplace is more demanding than it used to, and it keeps evolving faster each second. The typical traditional workplace where hard skills were all that mattered has started adding to it the soft or human skills and this is producing great results. There are many types of human...
Cocoa Diaries interview with CFAN President continues. Continued from Part One: Further in the conversation, I asked about their overarching goals with this revival. I wanted to understand where their focus was. On whether they were going to repeat Ghana’s mistakes of prioritising the political benefits and any benefit to the...
…Dealing with customer incivility Sometimes. Just sometimes, you wonder if all is well with some people. You sometimes witness the behaviour of certain people and you cannot help but wonder if all is well with them. There have been a couple of times, during my days at the front line...
Imagine a world where there are fewer or no carbon emissions and more carbon sinks, a world where there is minimum carbon concentration or no carbon concentration at all, a world where climate conditions are perfect! The good news is, that is not far-fetched; it could be real! It...
The country looks broke with many hardships - but with a sudden free rise of the cedi against the dollar and other currencies, it looks like there’s a light at the end of the tunnel. And for many people, their car is the safest and most dependable way to...
Those who know me well know that one of my favourite sayings is: ‘You may not be where you want to be right now, but you are not where you could be’. This basically means that we should take a bit more time to appreciate what we have now....
… One child at a time Millions of people go to bed hungry every night around the world. The need seems insurmountable but if we start small – by feeding our children – we can break the cycle of poverty and inequality. There’s enough food for everyone in the world and...